Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is the building block of modern main memory systems. DRAM cells must be periodically refreshed to prevent loss of data. These refresh operation...
Estimation of static and dynamic energy of caches is critical for high-performance low-power designs. Commercial CAD tools performing energy estimation statically are not aware of...
Shrikanth Ganapathy, Ramon Canal, Antonio Gonz&aac...
—In a conventional SoC designs, on-chip memories occupy more than the 50% of the total die area. 3D technology enables the distribution of logic and memories on separate stacked ...
Marco Facchini, Paul Marchal, Francky Catthoor, Wi...
Various architectural power reduction techniques have been proposed for on-chip caches in the last decade. In this paper, we first show that these power reduction techniques can b...
Ja Chun Ku, Serkan Ozdemir, Gokhan Memik, Yehea I....
- With the increased complexity of platforms coupled with data centers’ servers sprawl, power consumption is reaching unsustainable limits. Memory is an important target for plat...